/* *************************************************************************************
* copyright: Copyright (c) 2021 Lowell D. Thomas, all rights reserved
* license: BSD-2-Clause (https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause)
* ********************************************************************************* */Look ahead and look behind parsing is allowed to look at the entire string, not just the substring being parsed.
This is an important feature for the phrase matching engine (see apg-exp).
It allows you to match a substring, but only if it is preceded and/or followed by specific phrases.
This grammar is for a simplified area code.
The parsed substring is only a match if it is preceded and followed by open and closed parentheses
which fall outside of the area code number.
You can see in the trace of the second string that the look behind finds the ( preceding the defined substring
and the look ahead finds ) following the defined substring.
(function lookaround() {
let input;
const grammar = new (require('./area-code'))();
const setup = require('./setup');
input = '800-555-1234';
setup(input, 0, 3, grammar, 'area-code-fail');
input = '(800)555-1234';
setup(input, 1, 3, grammar, 'area-code-ok');
})();